After a long day, I was now settling down to prepare dinner, and our son was at the kitchen table trying to get his homework done. We were talking back and forth about the day and what he had done at school. Out of curiosity, I asked what he was doing for homework. Never reluctant to let me see his projects he handed me his homework book with a cute smile.
As I read, I noticed that his p’s and q’s, b’s and d’s were mixed up. When I asked him about it he simply said “Mum, that’s the way they go”. I spoke with his teacher about it and she showed me techniques that I could use to help him make the differentiation. He was 5 then, he is 9 now and unfortunately for us, this presented itself at the time of COVID but, we are dealing with it now. Are there any signs you note in your child’s reading or writing?
These are a few signs that jumped out at me.
- If the sounds of letters don’t stick with your child
- If he or she confuses letters that look alike (b, d, p, q) or sound-alike ( f, v, d, t)
- If he or she has difficulty rhyming words
- If he or she has difficulty remembering sight words
- If there is a significant difference in not ending words with s, ing or ed
- If there is difficulty remembering what he or she reads or what was read to them.
- If he or she speaks the same word differently in the same sentence.